Milk-can cover.



R. BRAY.

MILK GAN COVER. APPLIoATIoN P ILED DB6. '1, 190B. l

Patented Mar. 23, 1909.

UNITED "STATES PATENT orFIcE.

RICHARD BRAY, or ARLINeToNHEIenTs, ILLINOIS, AssIeNoR 'ro BnAY'aARLINGTON HEIcHrs-ILLINoIaA FIRM.v

MILK-CAN COVER.

KATES, o

' Patented pplcation 'led December 7, 1908. Serial No. 466,324.

To all 'whom it may concern:

zen of the United States, residin at'Arlington Heights, in the county ofCoo and State .of Illinois, have invented certain 'new and usefulImprovements in Milk-Can Covers, of

. Which the following 1s a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawingle. his invention' relates to improvements inl in IIt is the object of my invention to construct from a single piece a cancover of ordinary appearance, viz.eone having a Haring top, 'acylindrical body portion to t Within a corres onding'ly-shaped neck of acan, and araiser:v diaphragm to 'Whichhan vordinary handleis vadapted tobe secured.

In a milkecan cover of ordinary construe- A tion the cylindrical'portion referred to .is

formed of but a single thickness of material and, owing to the roughusage to-Which milkcans and their covers are ordinarily sub. jected,such cylindrical portion frequently gets bent or battered to such anertent as to' destroy the close iit that .it Was-designed to 'have-'Withthe neck of the milk-can. This is a verylserious .objection inasmuchaswh'en the snu fit of the cover In the can 1s I mpaired t e can as aWhole can-not be relied v upon to retain its contents in a strictlysanitar struction and therefore be less liable to be.

' come battered .and misshapen.

condition. L t is a further object of my invention t o so construct thisportion o f the cover that it-Will be of double the ordinary thickness`and hence be much stronger than the usual'conforth .in the claim.

at one end and thenby furt by the con-- 'niet which 1 believe tete newwill be ser.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a vertical4 central section through myimproved cover.;

and Fig. 2 is a longitudinaljsection taken at line 2--2 yof'Fig'. 1.

Referring to the figures ofthe drawingsrc indicates the flaring up erportion o the cover; b and c the outeran inner members of a cylindricaldouble Wall landd a dia hragm that forms a closure for the saidcylindrical ortion of the cover.'A -These parts a b c and are, asclearly shown in Fig. 1, formed from a singlel 'iece. ofmaterial.` Inthe manufacture of t is cover the sheet of metal is drawn to form acomparatively long cylinder closed er dies the fiaring' portion c isproduced and the metal bent upon itself to form the two thicknessesthatproduce the straightl double Wall b c and the.

orizontal diaphragm d integral with the inner-member of such doubleWall. The two members b and c of such double wall are, 'by

struction necessarily lgives a rounded lower edge to such Wall, as isplainly apparentv lfrom Fig. 1, and bein double thickness theovveredgeis much less liable to become4 nicked or split thanvv sorounded and of Where, as in the ordinary construction, the

lower edge is simplv the raw, lain edge of an ordinary 'sheet of metal'.

struction that 'but .'a very s ight crack or opening is left. betweenthem at the upper -end ofthe member' c--so sl' ht, in fact, t at it'will lbe oompletelyclose by the molten tinwhenthe cove I.- as a whole issubjected to 'the-usual tinning bath.` Of course, such o ening may beclosed by solder if desired,

. a though I do notdeemthat essential.

By my invention I provide avery neat,- strong, and durable cover thatAcan be readily and, inexpensively formed and which oiiers no`opportilniy for the lodginent of particles he inner and" outer membersb ande are in practice pressed socloselytogether during the rocess ofcony e indicates af handlesicured in any apouter wall member, and adiaphragm extendproved manner to the diaphragm d. ing across and closingsaid cylindrical p01- 10 That Which I claim as my lnvention, and l tion.

desire to secure by. Letters Patent, is;- 5 As a new article ofmanufacture, a can Cover formed of a single piece of material Witnesses:

and comprising a'aring upper portion, a cy- W. A. FURNNER,

lindricalportion Consisting of an inner and an W. H. DE BUsKn RICHARDBRAY.

